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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. SpaceTime vs. SurrealDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationMireoSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20202022
Current release5.0.0, January 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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